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Underground

1995

Emir Kusturica

Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac ...

7.8

18,402

Comedy. Drama 'Underground' takes a look at the modern history of Yugoslavia through the often absurd misadventures of two friends over several decades. The film begins in Belgrade in 1941, establishing the friendship between the gregarious Blacky and the more intellectual Marko during a drunken, late-night musical procession that establishes the riotous tone to follow. Fellow members of the Communist Party, the friends also share an involvement in ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young Variety	"A three-hour steamroller circus that leaves the viewer dazed and exhausted, but mightily impressed (...) Engaging and exhilarating"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[A] feverish, whimsical allegory elevated by moments of brilliant clarity (...) 'Underground' ends magnificently"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"A deliriously metaphorical, emotionally gut-wrenching and devastatingly funny chronicle of a death foretold (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"There's no denying Kusturica's technical virtuosity (...) but in the end it's hard to fathom the exact purpose of this epic allegory."	NEU
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"'Underground' remains dangerously over-ambitious (...) Kusturica is sturdier on style than substance (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Joshua Klein AV Club	"A bizarre, often repellent anti-war parable that takes forever to state the obvious (...) It would take some kind of mad genius to stretch this inanity to nearly three hours"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Marvelously excessive (...) A triumph of mise en scene mated to a comic vision that keeps topping its own hyperbole"	POS
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"One of the 10 best war films I've ever seen (...) It's a masterwork of brilliant editing and design; not a frame is unwarranted, not a scene excessive (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"With much of the action taken at a frantic pace, to the accompaniment of brass or gypsy bands, this is as breathless as it is perplexing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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